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diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md index 5ef94e0..4af1372 100644 --- a/changelog.md +++ b/changelog.md @@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ _New features_ - New text mode (thanks to Pavel Kagulin, see issue #601), with - output formats compatible with color terminals and sway. + output formats compatible with color terminals and pango. + - New text mode with format following swaybar-protocol, supporting + colors, faces, boxes and actions. ## Version 0.41 (January, 2022) @@ -126,13 +126,14 @@ xmobar -TPlain /path/to/config & #+end_src - Other options are ~Ansi~ and ~Pango~. + Other options are ~Ansi~, ~Pango~, and ~Swaybar~. -*** Using xmobar in Wayland with swaybar +*** Using xmobar in Wayland with swaybar or waybar In text mode, xmobar can be told to ouput its information using - pango markup for colors, and it that way you can use it with - swaybar. Here's a minimal ~bar~ configuration for sway's + pango markup for colors and fonts, and it that way you can use it + with swaybar or waybar, if you don't have actions or boxes in your + template. Here's a minimal ~bar~ configuration for sway's configuration file: #+begin_src conf @@ -142,6 +143,17 @@ } #+end_src + In case you want to use boxes around text or click actions in your + template, you can use instead the format ~Swaybar~, which supports + both. This output format follows the JSON /swaybar-protocol/ + defined by swaybar. Configure it simply with: + + #+begin_src conf + bar { + status_command xmobar -TSwaybar + } + #+end_src + * Configuration and further Links - If you want to jump straight into configuring xmobar, head over to the diff --git a/xmobar.cabal b/xmobar.cabal index f37f931..5f4b6d4 100644 --- a/xmobar.cabal +++ b/xmobar.cabal @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ name: xmobar -version: 0.41 +version: 0.42 homepage: https://github.com/jaor/xmobar synopsis: A Minimalistic Text Based Status Bar description: Xmobar is a minimalistic text based status bar. |